20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

Romanian schools in the Balkan Peninsula during the 20 th century 791On October the 1 st 1926, this administration has been replaced by school localcommittees (forumi) and the control was replaced by that of the principal ofthe most important school of that respective school district. Legations andconsulates of Romania coordinated the activity of these committees andmanaged their funds passed to them. In what you are, others were rented. Inthe Pind Mountains region, where the Romanian population used to move,schools had winter and summer courses, as communities traveled with theirsheep heck. In such cases, courses took place in unsuitable conditions,in huts: Fetiţa, Thessaloniki district, Mavronovo, Mandalovo, Babiani,Drenovo in Meglenia district. 74 Some premises of Romanian schools wereconfiscated by the Greeks as well as those from Livezi, Oşani, Lunguţa,Târnareca and Liumniţa. For the premises of schools in villages Liumniţaand Oşani , Greek authorities offered 5,000 drachmas, but the Romaniangovernment refused and responded: "... the Greek Government owes usnot such offers but the return of the schools and churches premises thatbelonged to us until 1912". 75In school year 1939-1940 in Greece operated 29 primary schoolswith 60 school teachers and 950 pupils and 4 secondary schools with 54teachers and 477 pupils, namely: a commercial high school for boys and aprofessional secondary school for girls in Salonic, a boys’ high school inGrebena and a secondary school in Ianina. Apart from the secondary schoolsthere also operated a boarding school supported by the Romanian state.The analytical curriculum was the official one in Romania, supplementedby the Greek language, history and geography. Romania has paid for thisschool year 3,500,000 lei for the salaries of school teachers, 4,908,000 leifor those of teachers, and 5,387,100 lei for the maintenance of the boardingschools and for the rents of premises schools. 76The outbreak of the II nd World War and the occupation of Greece,first by the Italian troops and then by the German ones, had negativelyinfluenced the functioning of the Romanian schools in this country. Inthe school year 1940-1941, they were closed. In the autumn of 1941 theywere reopened, but in extremely difficult terms. In a report of the businessrepresentative of the Romanian Legation in Athens, Radu Arion, issuedin December 1941, indicated that the premises of schools and boardingschools of Ianina and Grebena were evacuated by the Italian troops and apart of the furniture was destroyed or taken by the Greek or Italian troops.The buildings registered damages. However the courses could begin in74Ibidem, file 741/1925, f. 34.75Ibidem, f. 205-206.76Ibidem, file 1444/1941, f.6.